Major Mining Project 2011

Gibraltar Development Plan 3 (GDP3):

  • Major site works for the new concentrator building including 150,000 m3 of bulk excavation for the building pad, parking lots and roadways
  • Ditching, culverts and associated rip-rap work
  • 32,000 m3 gravel crushing
  • 12,000 m3 gravel hauling, placing and compacting
  • All associated construction layout, quantity surveys and geo-technical testing


Tailings Dam Raise:

  • 110,000 m3 till core dam raise
  • Borrow pit development
  • Production, supply, haul and placement of 7,500 m3 of filter gravel
  • Clearing, grubbing and stripping of dam footprint
  • Production and placement of rip-rap material


Mud Haul Project

  • Lake Excavating used in-house engineering to complete this project at Gibraltar Mine
  • Loading and hauling of 400,000 m3 of mud and lake bottom sediment from the open-pit mine site
  • Loading, hauling and placing of 80,000 m3 of shot rock padding material for access